hello! yoshi

I just figured this out today. When I talk to a person who has an asian accent, I speak as if I had an asian accent. I know it’s weird but it’s true. I caught myself doing this today when I went to the Korean store to get some food. The lady there asked me how long I’ve lived in the area and I responded with a total asian accent. I thought it was pretty funny.

Of course, this doesn’t happen with my mom. When I talk to her it’s more like JapEnglish (for those of you who don’t know what this is, it’s talking with some words Japanese and most words in English), but Meesh told me when I was talking to my aunt from Japan, I spoke totally differently. Pretty weird!

Does anyone out there notice the same things? I know when I sometimes talk to my Jersey friends, I get the Jersey accent going on.

31. I LOVE ramen. I’m not sure you’re hearing me. I LOVE IT. I’ve been searching for the ultimate bowl of ramen for ages now, and someday I’ll find one. I love ramen so much, I eventually want to open my own ramen restaurant. It would be small, seating maybe up to 10 people. Nothing major. I just want people to enjoy ramen as much as I do. I love it so much, I made a video post on “how to eat ramen”.

I’m getting there with these facts. It’s tough coming up with 100 facts about yourself. Luckily I didn’t say 100 days in a row.

30. I might have mentioned this before, but I’ll try any food at least once. If it’s served to me, and I know I haven’t eaten it before and hated it, I’ll eat it. Sure. But I’m a hypocrite. Because there are certain foods I KNOW I will not care for, therefore won’t even try it.

One of those foods is cow tongue. I know, I know, there are a lot of you out there who think it’s awesome, and so good. No. No no no NO. I will not eat that. There is only one tongue in my mouth and no other tongues are allowed to be in my mouth to be eaten. That is just plain gross. If you’re gonna feed it to me, it better be hard to distinguish because I’ll know it’s not something I normally eat.

Oh yeah, another one? Rocky Mountain Oysters. Oh hell no!

What foods would you never ever eat?

Ok, I got a survey in the mail, and I saw an opportunity to make a post out of it. I decided to make this one of my “facts” for the 100 Facts meme. So Mark, here you go, here are my answers you are so anxious to read. (Was I the first to reply to this?)

1. What time is it: : 13:18 (that’s 1:18PM for you non 24 hour clock types)
2. What’s your full name: Yoshiaki Melrose (Yoshi is just easier for everyone to say.)
3. What are you most afraid of: Clowns. No kidding.
4. What was the last movie that you saw in a theater: I am Legend
5. Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
6. Favorite food: Ramen! I love it so much I have to slurp!
7. What’s your natural hair color: Black
8. Ever been to Alaska: Yeap
9. Ever been toilet paper rolling: Nope
10. Love someone so much it made you cry: Yeap
11. Been in a car accident: Yeap
12. Croutons or bacon bits: Bacon Bits. Bacon makes everything better yo!
13. Favorite day of the week: Fridays.
14. Favorite restaurant: Right now? Not sure, but it could be Applebee’s.
15. Favorite Flower: Daisies, of course.
16. Favorite sport to watch: Nascar (wait. is Nascar a sport?)
17. Favorite drink: Diet Pepsi. I’m not much of an alcohol drinker.
18. Favorite ice cream: Strawberry. (yeah i’m boring)
19. Disney or Warner Brothers: Warner Brothers although I do like Pixar.
20. Ever been on a ship: Yeap
21. What color is your bedroom carpet: We have hardwood floors
22. How many times did you fail your driver’s test: Unbelievably, never failed.
23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail: Crockdaddy!
24. What do you do when you are bored: Play games. Like World of Warcraft.
25. Bedtime: Varies, but not before midnight unless I’m super tired.
26. Who will respond to this e-mail the quickest: N/A because I’m not sending this out.
27. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond: Again N/A, but feel free to do this if you like.
28. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses: N/A again. But if you do do this, then send me the link please!
29. Favorite TV show: CSI and Bones. Love those shows!
30. Last person you went to dinner with: Meesh
31. Who do you think will be President: /sigh this is tough. I never involve myself in politics really. But I’d say Clinton.
32. What are your favorite colors: Purple and Black.
33. How many tattoos do you have: None. But I might someday get one. But I’m just not sure.
34. How many pets do you have: We just have one cat
35. Which came first, the chicken or the egg: Chicken. I mean, the chicken had to evolve first!
36. What do you want to do before you die: Lots of things, but I think the biggest one is to get rich.
37. Have you ever been to Hawaii: Yes, but I was a teen and very emo, so I didn’t enjoy it.
38. Have you been to countries outside the U.S.: Yeap, only Japan and the Philippines.
39. How many people are you sending this e-mail to: Who knows? There could be a whole 5 people who read this post!
40. Time this survey ended: 13:33 (That’s 1:33pm for you non 24 hour clock types)

If you want to do this, then by all means, copy the questions and get rid of my answers.

28. I have way too many domain names. Well, let me correct that. I have too many domain names I don’t use. I’d like to throw out a list, but sheesh, there’s just too many of them. One time, I believe it was Jules who called me a “Domain Ho” at one point in time. Do I have too many domain names? Probably.

And now, for something completely different…

Please take a visit over to see Daniel, it’s his birthday today (12/22) and wish him a happy birthday and to have a better December. Damn that retail business!

Also take a visit over to hello! Food, where I’ve actually made an update. Can you believe it? (I know, huh?)

Finally, we’ll be going on vacation to see my folks in good ol’ New Jersey. We’ll be there from 12/27 to 1/3, so if you’re in the area and wanna hang out, let me know! I’m trying to plan a big bash, but alas, it might not turn out to be so big. Or a bash, we’ll see.

27. While it can’t really be true, I’m going to say it: I have too many computers. I’m sure that most people will say “Yoshi, that can’t be true, say it isn’t so!” but alas, it’s true.

Let’s see…I have:

• Macbook
• Powerbook (it’s old and busted but works great as a file server and other stuff)
• Main PC for gaming
• Dell server that’s just sitting there
• Old TV computer that’s just sitting there
• TV Computer that records all our shows (kinda like tivo, but it’s Beyond TV)
• Sun Sparc 1 that’s just sitting there with a 20″ monitor (I have to get rid of this)

Of course, that list doesn’t even include Meesh’s computer and laptop. So what do you think? Do I have too many computers?

26. I saved a man’s life. I found my old list of “100 things about me you didn’t know” and I’ll probably use a lot of that for this list. Anyways, yes, it’s true, I (and a coworker) saved a man’s life. Many would attribute it to me, but I don’t think so, I was just in the right place at the right time. I’ll paint the picture for you. Imagine…

I’m outside the Acute Care Clinic (ACC), and yes, I was smoking. It was about 6:30 in the morning. I was just getting done with 24 hour duty, having slept all night in the ACC. Suddenly, I hear a marine yell out, “Man down! Man down!” and with amazing speed (which surprised me!) I looked around and saw a group of marines in the nearby softball field all gathered around someone. I quickly opened the door to the ACC and yelled to the first person I saw, “there’s a marine down out here, I’ll need help!” and so we both ran out into the field to see exactly what was going on.

When we got through the crowd of marines, we finally saw that a Top Gunny had suddently collapsed right after they had gotten here from jogging. My coworker slapped him around, and asked him, “Are you ok? Hello?” What happened next is one thing that I’ll never forget for the rest of my life, I think. A marine, in the whiniest voice said, “No, doc, of course he’s not ok!” I think I just about thought I was going to burst laughing, but you know, that would be too insensitive. Later, my coworker admitted he wanted to laugh too. But please realize, the first thing we learn is that you have to determine LOC (Level of Consciousness) when you get into a situation like this. Of course we knew he wasn’t going to answer. He was in cardiac arrest. His heart stopped pumping. So immediately, we ordered the marines to gently lift him and bring him in the ACC.

From there, it was all typical hospital stuff. We managed to revive the Top and he was just fine after that. There’s a bit more to this part of the story, but no one wants to hear about the crazy things that happen while you’re doing chest compressions. A bit of cardiac care and he was off to spend many more years of life. For a while, we were the talk of the town, until someone else was saved or some other tragedy happened. But I will never forget what the doctor said about that day. “If it wasn’t for that smoking corpsman, he would have never made it.” While I’m not saying it was a good thing that I smoked at the time, I just got the warm fuzzies thinking that I made a difference in someone else’s life.

Pretty neat huh? Yeah I don’t like to talk about it much, since you know, I didn’t do anything really spectacular per se. It almost seemed like I was someone else that day, but at the same time it was me. That wasn’t the first time I ever had to do CPR or run through a code, but it was one of my memorable ones.

25. I collect ghost stories. Ok, yes, I realize this might be similar to Fact 4, but I think they’re just a little bit different. I love to hear people talk about crazy things that might have happened to them, and crazy ghosts they did see. I’m no skeptic, although I have many leanings towards it. I think I’ve seen enough to believe that there is something more out there than just stories and hoaxes. This just makes me remember the trip to New Orleans that cybr and I made way back. We did the ghost tour, which started at 8:15pm, and there were some stories that were pretty creepy. I’m not exactly sure how many of the stories are really made up, but honestly, I’m not surprised that New Orleans could be one of the most haunted cities in the world.

Tell me your ghost stories, I want to hear all about them!

24. I’m the ultimate procrastinator. I mean constantly put things off. I start so many thing and keep pushing the completion date forward and forward because you know, I can finish it later, right? I mean why complete now, what I can

23. I have a super-power called “ i can make everyone hungry in 20 seconds.” Just by talking to me, most people seem to get hungry. It’s true. Ask Danalyn or Tiggerprr just to name a couple of people. I simply talk about food, and people get hungry. It’s amazing. I am only reminded of Spiderman, when I use my power:

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

I promise to use my power wisely. And will never to use it except for special circumstances. Or to just annoy the crap out of my friends. “Dude, stop making me hungry!”